With the constant growing of mobile technology, mobile phones have become a necessity and this is the reason why every businessman should have a mobile app for his business. Mobile applications can help you to showcase your products, services, and represent your business among your customers.

In the recent times, the mobile app development has flourished in the market at a very fast rate. From health & fitness to news to online shopping for games, there is nothing in the mobile market that is left.

Often, marketers are finding it difficult to design an application for their business that produces effective results. However, the reality depends on your survey and research that in return help you select the best option for your target audience. It is highly important that you design and develop one such app that fulfills all the requirements of users.

But how will you keep your users engaged with your mobile application? The answer to this question is “attractive user-experience”. A bad and unattractive UI design can affect your application’s credibility. Therefore, it becomes important that you consider both UI and UX while the app designing as both can break or make your app.

Here are some of the important design tips for your mobile app design.

Selecting Right Colors & Make Sure to Exile Clutter

If you will opt for including a lot of features and functionalities in your application, it will make your app’s user interface cluttered and quite difficult to navigate. You should not do that at any cost.

Make sure that your application has a clear and one main purpose as it will help you in designing and optimizing the user experience in an amazing way. Significantly, you should create more relevant content for your app as it will go far in developing brand engagement and increase loyalty as well.

Through a written outline, you can get a complete idea about the total number of pages that you need for your application’s content. Along with it, colors are playing very important role in making your application attractive among your users.

Through colors, you can define the emotional relationship that your customers have with your service/products. When you design an app, you should keep in mind that every culture links with different colors with different symbols.

Try to Make It As Simple As Possible

Talking about designing a mobile application, simplicity is the most important point that must be considered while designing. Always design your app thinking about the first-time users of your app as you don’t want to puzzle them.

To get his required information if a user needs to navigate through four levels of menus, there are high chances that your application will be instantly uninstalled by them. Usually, users don’t like apps that have complex navigation. So, try to imbed simplicity in your app’s UI with latest style, so users do not need any special instructions while using the app.

If you have an application that is easy-to-use and intuitive, it motivates users to download and visit often. You should ensure that you follow the agreements of back-button behavior and keep it, where it is supposed to be.

Define Your Targeted Audience

As we all know that in various cases, the audience is defining your mobile app design. So, the below-mentioned steps will help you to know your targeted audience:

You should think, who will be interested in using your application. However, these are the actual users, but their main models will enable you to forecast users’ decisions concerning your application.

You should try to predict the user’s’ behavior. After comprehending their behavior, it will be easy for you to design a UI, which meet users’ expectations.

Rule of Accessibility

Many a times, we accidently click on the wrong button on the application and reach to any random screen. As the human fingers are bigger than the mouse cursors; therefore, it is essential to keep in mind a finger-friendly design that can give a positive impact on your application.

You should provide sufficient space for users so that they can easily tap their fingers whether they want to minimize, search or click on any button. However, fingers are about 45-57 pixels wide that are much larger than most of the design guidelines.

You should also keep in mind that people usually hold their phones in different ways like one thumb, two hands or two thumbs. Thus, you can keep this thumb and finger rule in your mind while adding touch buttons in the app.

Go with Flat UI

Do you know that designs are mainly focused on trends? It is true that designs mainly focus on latest trends. This information will help you to make sure that your application is beyond and matching with the top industry standards.

Currently, flat design is in fashion as users find it attractive. Along with it, you can improve the usability of your app by considering device-specific shades like posture, thumb placement, and orientation.

These are the top 5 mobile design tips that can help you to make your application successful by designing it in a way it should be. Consider these tips and make your app part from other applications.

This guest article was written by Mohd.Sohel Ather, who is a veteran mobile app developer with Space-O Technologies – a reputed mobile app development company. He has a proficient team of app developers to give a solution for your problem.